PEOPLE EX REL. BLASSICK v. CALLAHAN

No. 40553.

50 Ill.2d 330 (1972)

279 N.E.2d 1

THE PEOPLE ex rel. RICHARD EUGENE BLASSICK, Appellant, v. JAMES CALLAHAN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

CRAIG M. ARMSTRONG, of WOLSLEGEL & ARMSTRONG, of Ottawa, for appellant.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and RICHARD E. RICHARDSON, State's Attorney, of Ottawa, (THOMAS J. IMMEL and FRED G. LEACH, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court of La Salle County denying the petition of Richard E. Blassick for a writ of habeas corpus and remanding him to the custody of the sheriff of La Salle County under a Governor's warrant issued after a request for the petitioner's extradition had been made by the Governor of Kentucky. The appeal presents two issues: (1) Was the hearing...

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